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Revision as of 03:13, 5 June 2021

Bingara, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1894 and abolished in 1920.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party affiliation
1894   Samuel Moore Free Trade
1895
1898
1901   Liberal Reform
1904
1904 by
1907
1910   George McDonald Labor
1913
1916 by   Independent
1917   Nationalist

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

1917

1917 New South Wales state election: Bingara[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist George McDonald 3,113 51.5 +3.7
Labor Alfred McClelland 2,935 48.5 +0.7
Total formal votes 6,048 98.4 +1.0
Informal votes 95 1.6 −1.0
Turnout 6,143 65.5 −5.0
Member changed to Nationalist from Labor / Independent  
George McDonald had been elected as a Labor member in the 1913 election. He resigned from the party and his seat as a protest at the behaviour of the Easter 1916 NSW Labor conference and retained the seat at the by-election as an Independent.[5]

1916 by-election

1916 Bingara by-election
Saturday 10 June [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent George McDonald (re-elected) 2,974 56.2
Labor Alfred McClelland 2,314 43.8
Total formal votes 5,288 99.0
Informal votes 52 1.0
Turnout 5,340 52.8 [a]
Member changed to Independent from Labor  
George McDonald had been elected as a Labor member in the 1913 election. He resigned from the party and his seat as a protest at the behaviour of the Easter 1916 NSW Labor conference and retained the seat at the by-election as an Independent.[5]

1913

1913 New South Wales state election: Bingara[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Farmers and Settlers Robert Higgins [b] 3,320 47.8
Labor George McDonald 3,317 47.8
Country Party Association Frank Cheesbrough 310 4.5
Total formal votes 6,947 97.4
Informal votes 182 2.6
Turnout 7,129 70.5
1913 New South Wales state election: Bingara - Second Round
Saturday 20 December [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George McDonald 3,773 51.8
Farmers and Settlers Robert Higgins 3,514 48.2
Total formal votes 7,287 99.6
Informal votes 32 0.4
Turnout 7,319 72.4
Labor hold  

1910

1910 New South Wales state election: Bingara[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George McDonald 3,037 50.3 +12.3
Liberal Reform Samuel Moore (defeated) 2,997 49.7 −12.2
Total formal votes 6,034 98.4 +1.5
Informal votes 98 1.6 −1.5
Turnout 6,132 64.2 +4.4
Labour gain from Liberal Reform  

Elections in the 1900s

1907

1907 New South Wales state election: Bingara[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reform Samuel Moore 3,143 61.9
Labour Samuel Heaton 1,936 38.1
Total formal votes 5,079 96.9
Informal votes 161 3.1
Turnout 5,240 59.8
Liberal Reform hold  

1904 by-election

1904 Bingara by-election
Wednesday 14 September [9][10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reform Samuel Moore (re-elected) 2,261 79.8
Labour Frank Foster 572 20.2
Total formal votes 2,833 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 2,833 73.8 [c]
Liberal Reform hold Swing N/A
Samuel Moore was appointed Secretary for Mines in the Carruthers ministry.[9]

1904

1904 New South Wales state election: Bingara[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reform Samuel Moore unopposed
Liberal Reform hold  
Bingara was expanded to include part of Uralla-Walcha. Samuel Moore (Liberal Reform) was the member for Bingara. The member for the abolished seat of Uralla-Walcha was Michael MacMahon (Progressive) who unsuccessfully contested Armidale.

1901

Elections in the 1890s

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Bingara[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Samuel Moore 696 57.6
National Federal William McIntyre 513 42.4
Total formal votes 1,209 99.2
Informal votes 10 0.8
Turnout 1,219 51.7
Free Trade hold  

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Bingara[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Samuel Moore 740 59.0
Protectionist William Dowel 515 41.0
Total formal votes 1,255 99.5
Informal votes 7 0.6
Turnout 1,262 61.3
Free Trade hold  

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Bingara[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Samuel Moore 751 50.2
Protectionist William Dowel 533 35.6
Ind. Free Trade Herbert Clark 111 7.4
Ind. Free Trade Robert Buist 96 6.4
Independent Labour Thomas Jones 5 0.3
Total formal votes 1,496 97.0
Informal votes 47 3.1
Turnout 1,543 76.4
Free Trade win (new seat)

Notes

  1. ^ based on an electoral roll of 10,111 at the 1913 election.[6]
  2. ^ Also endorsed by Liberal Reform.
  3. ^ Estimate based on an electoral roll of 6,471 at the August 1904 election.[11]

References

  1. ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. ^ Green, Antony. "1917 Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. ^ a b c Green, Antony. "1916 Bingara by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  6. ^ a b c Green, Antony. "1913 Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  7. ^ Green, Antony. "1910 Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  8. ^ Green, Antony. "1907 Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  9. ^ a b Green, Antony. "1904 Bingara by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  10. ^ "The election". Bundarra & Tingha Advocate. 17 September 1904. p. 2. Retrieved 10 October 2020 – via Trove.
  11. ^ a b Green, Antony. "1904 Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  12. ^ Green, Antony. "1901 Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  13. ^ Green, Antony. "1898 Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  14. ^ Green, Antony. "1895 Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  15. ^ Green, Antony. "1894 Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2020.